Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1)1

I, MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN, Minister for Finance, make this Declaration under paragraph (ec) of the definition of eligible employee in subsection 3 (1) of the Superannuation Act 1976.

Dated 19-6-2015

MATHIAS HUBERT PAUL CORMANN

Minister for Finance

1 Name of Declaration

This Declaration is the Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Amendment Declaration 2015 (No. 1).

2 Commencement

This Declaration commences on 10 July 1997.

3 Application

The amendments made by item 2 of Schedule 1 to this Declaration apply in relation to persons who become employees of Australian Hearing Services on or after 1 July 1997.

4 Amendment of Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Declaration 2003

Schedule 1 amends the Superannuation (CSS) (Eligible Employees — Inclusion) Declaration 2003.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 4)

[1] Subsection 3 (1), immediately after the definition of Australian Government Solicitor

insert

Australian Hearing Services means the body corporate established under Part 2 of the Australian Hearing Services Act 1991.

[2] After section 4

insert

5 Persons who are eligible employees

(1) For paragraph (ec) of the definition of eligible employee in subsection 3 (1) of the Act, and subject to subsection (2), a person is an eligible employee if the person is in the class of persons each of whom:

(a) is an employee of Australian Hearing Services, other than on a casual or temporary part-time basis; and

(b) in respect of whom contributions were accepted, purportedly under the Act, on or after 1 July 1997, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services; and

(c) is not, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme.

(2) A person ceases to be an eligible employee for the purposes of subsection (1) at the end of the first-occurring of the following days:

(a) the day the person ceases to be an employee of Australian Hearing Services;

(b) the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes, in relation to the person’s employment with Australian Hearing Services, a member of an alternative superannuation scheme;

(b) the day immediately before the day on which the person becomes a casual or temporary part‑time employee of Australian Hearing Services;

(c) if Australian Hearing Services ceases to be a corporate Commonwealth entity – the last day on which Australian Hearing Services is a corporate Commonwealth entity.